An Interesting Little Plastic Coin Bank From The Cleveland Trust Company

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willieboyd2 Pillar of the Community United States 524 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 08:57 am This little 4" x 3" plastic coin saving bank is from the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A friend from a hiking club showed it to me. It was full of old silver coins and she wanted me to open it and get the coins out. I did. The front reads: A Great City ... A Great Bank! The Cleveland Trust Company 63 Convenient Offices ... Banking Services The Bank For All the People (Drawing) Gen Moses Cleaveland (spelled the old way) Under the bottom reads: Tom Thrift Enterprises New Canaan, Conn Patents Applied For The Tom Thrift company made these coin banks in the 1950's to encourage people to save money. The coin bank has seven tubes for circulating coins of 1, 5 (two), 10 (two), 25, and 50 cents. The sponsoring bank would hand the coin banks out to customers to fill with coins. The customer would bring the coin bank to the office where a teller would use a special key to unlock it and deposit the coins to an account. I found a couple of similar Tom Thrift coin banks on ebay selling for $15.00 to $30.00 and a couple of newspaper advertisements dated 1954 and 1956 from banks offering these coin banks to customers. https://www.brianrxm.com The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television Edited by willieboyd2 07/19/2018 08:58 am Report this Post to the Staff

nfine Pillar of the Community United States 3468 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 09:10 am Very nice bank, please tell us about the silver coins you removed. Report this Post to the Staff
willieboyd2 Pillar of the Community United States 524 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 11:20 am Very nice bank, please tell us about the silver coins you removed. https://www.brianrxm.com The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin Coins in Movies Coins on Television Edited by willieboyd2 07/19/2018 11:22 am Report this Post to the Staff
Crazyb0 Rest in Peace 10197 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 12:10 pm I remember banks doing that kind of offer in the late '50's as a kid. The ones I remember were sealed tho. the bank would view through and count the money, deposit it to a savings account, or to open a new one and any charges were free for a year, quite the gimmick. My dad would try to get these sealed plastic ones and we'd bust 'em up in the basement and do our own "PBB" (plastic bank bust)...usually had a lot of quarters and dimes, few halves and full LWC's! Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 187702 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 2:55 pm Very nice! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
moxking Rest in Peace United States 17900 Posts	Posted 07/19/2018 7:56 pm Careful. Bank collecting is highly addictive. Especially if you do local auctions. Report this Post to the Staff
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